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Posted June 13 2006 15:12

learning language online

I would like to learn to read, write, and speak Portuguese. I am not
familiar with many online educational resources to this end. Please tell me
some good ones.

ja
http://vispo.com

H Harvey June 13 2006 19:55Reply

There are free online resources at http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
I have also heard good things about "Rosetta Stone" and "Pimsleur" language programs, but that isn't from personal experience.
good luck,
Heather

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I would like to learn to read, write, and speak Portuguese. I am not
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some good ones.

ja
http://vispo.com


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Jim Andrews June 18 2006 03:55Reply

Thanks for the responses concerning online resources for language learning.
I'm going to try http://www.rosettastone.com . I like the app. I can fire it
up between code-writing sessions.

Eu terei um caipirinha, por favor.

ja
http://vispo.com

Jim Andrews June 18 2006 19:41Reply

> Nice try! But…you should say:
>
> Quero uma caipirinha, por favor! : )

Muito obrigado.

I am going through the online demo at http://www.rosettastone.com . No
caipirinha yet.

O que esta voando?
O aviao esta voando.

A nice introduction, actually–I like the way this app teaches–as a book
cannot. By using sound together with text and image. And no translation is
provided. One infers sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly, but one's
incorrect inferrences are eventually corrected by the multiplicity of
occassions where the inference is testable.

They are trying to respect one's intelligence, in that sense, it seems. It
is a kind of a game rather than a brute force memorization approach. Which
is good. More approachable.

ja
http://vispo.com